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My Favorite: Movies: 1982

The stretch between 1980 and 1982 was kind of epic for my childhood in terms of favorite movies: Empire Strikes Back, Superman II, Raiders of the Lost Ark and now Star Trek II: KAHNNN!!!!, Tron and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Let’s start off with my usual excursion over to IMDB to remember what I’ve seen and what I haven’t but probably should get around to watching.

Somewhere I saw someone had linked to this “preview” of summer movies coming out in 1982 — it’s a bit of a cool time capsule:

Despite all of the movies I loved seeing as a kid in the theaters that year, my favorite is Blade Runner which I saw later and have seen many times since. There are so many striking moments from that movie but the scene with Rutger Hauer is beautiful and haunting.

What is kind of amazing is that Blade Runner was set in 2019 which in 2013 isn’t all that far off.

After Blade Runner, Star Trek, Tron and E.T. still place very highly for me. I’d have to throw The Thing in the top ten too. I did see Poltergeist, a pretty scary movie, in 1982, but didn’t see The Thing until many years later. I still don’t like the most disgusting parts of The Thing but the movie as a whole is fantastic. The very recent prequel to it was actually also really good (and one of the few prequels to actually work).